Pro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoWhy does digital violence against LGBTI people in Thailand and Taiwan continue even after marriage equality?www.amnesty.orgexternal-linkmessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up177arrow-down124
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minus-squareJayleneSlide@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoWhat you propose is simple (as in simplistic), but far from easy. Content moderation at scale is extremely difficult, if not impossible. See “Masnick’s Impossibility Theorem.” Also, deplatforming bigots is difficult and ineffective: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/rja14/Papers/vu2023no.pdf https://www.theregreview.org/2023/11/09/mcdonald-the-limits-of-deplatforming/ (bonus link/spoiler alert: it’s a monopoly issue https://www.theregreview.org/2024/01/16/englebert-a-role-for-antitrust-in-online-content-moderation/)
What you propose is simple (as in simplistic), but far from easy. Content moderation at scale is extremely difficult, if not impossible. See “Masnick’s Impossibility Theorem.”
Also, deplatforming bigots is difficult and ineffective: